{"id":69505,"date":"2021-07-04T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69505"},"modified":"2021-07-04T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T03:01:11","slug":"69505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69505","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Weren\u2019t We Always Extremists?<\/a>
\nBut over the years, I\u2019ve had to disentangle my pride in my family\u2019s work ethic and character, which so closely align with the American ideals I was taught and still vigorously believe in, from our government itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

When we said, \u2018We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,\u2019 the reality is that this principle had been self-evident to practically no one throughout thousands of years of history. When we said that all men are \u2018endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,\u2019 it got people\u2019s attention, and suddenly others began to agree. When we said humans are entitled to \u2018Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,\u2019 it became a violation to impede such things. But make no mistake. These notions were not mainstream when our founders threw down the gauntlet with the Declaration of Independence.\u201d………….<\/p>\n

I always find it odd that America alone is criticized for injustices such as slavery, racism, inequality, and civil rights violations. It\u2019s as if the vast majority of people are truly under the impression these injustices only ever happened here. In truth, the entirety of human history is marred by these evils, and in many places, you\u2019ll find much worse conditions for civil liberties to this day………….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weren\u2019t We Always Extremists? But over the years, I\u2019ve had to disentangle my pride in my family\u2019s work ethic and character, which so closely align with the American ideals I was taught and still vigorously believe in, from our government itself. When we said, \u2018We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69511,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69505\/revisions\/69511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}